in addition to the sublime
setting, the abundant
amenities, including the full
outdoor kitchen, indoor and
outdoor showers, changing
rooms, and a spa, allow the
family to spend a day at the
pool without venturing back to
the main house.

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A band of teak windows set high on the wall of the
bathhouse allows natural light to filter into the pickled-fir,
limestone, and copper-clad interior spaces. Teak-framed
screening allows both light and ventilation. As tough as they
are handsome, the countertops and sink are made from
honed and oiled soapstone imported from Brazil. Neubauer
added bronze strap lights to the posts to illuminate the fir
ceiling. “Our idea was to choose cohesive, symbiotic materials whose shifts in color over the years would continue
harmoniously,” she says.

At one of the first languid dusks of summer, when the
air and light might match the feel of that African tableau
Jill Neubauer first imagined, the distant paddocks, pastures,
and barns are lit up with an amber gold. A pair of mares
trot by in the distance, kicking up a veil of dust and pressing their silhouettes into the view. The estate’s caretaker
is busy with some final plantings and tidying around the
pavilion.

“The whole family comes here early in the morning,
stays here all day and into the night with lots
of laughter,” he says. “It’s their sanctuary, and
I don’t think there’s any better compliment
for the creators of this place than that.”